Katherine Moennig and Lee Pace Cast in Guardians

Katherine Moennig, who plays Shane on the hit Showtime series The L Word, and Lee Pace, who received a Golden Globe nomination for the television film Soldier’s Girl, will co-star in Peter Morris’s two-character drama Guardians, April 1-May 25 at the Culture Project. Directed by Jason Moore, the show will open officially on April 11.

Winner of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the play is a fictional account of the Lynndie England scandal during the Iraq war. Morris’s work has been staged in England, Ireland, Italy, Iceland, and the United States. He has also written for the BBC.

The show will feature set design by Richard Hoover, whose credits include The Seven, Bat Boy, and After the Fall. Moore directed the Broadway musical Avenue Q, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and last season’s Broadway revival of Steel Magnolias.

Moennig will be making her Off-Broadway debut as “The American Girl” in Guardians. Pace, who will play “The English Boy,” has been seen on the New York stage in The Credeaux Canvas, The Fourth Sister, and Small Tragedy, for which he won an Obie Award.